Data envelopment analysis : theory and techniques for economics and operations research / Subhash C. Ray.

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Ray, Subhash C

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 353 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511210957
9780511210952
0521802563
9780521802567
0511216327
9780511216329
0511207352
9780511207358
0511214537
9780511214530
9780511606731
0511606737
9786610540853
6610540853
9781107405264
1107405262

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Data envelopment analysis.DDC classification:

338.4/5/01 22

LOC classification:

HA31.38 .R39 2004eb

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85.03
QH 234
QH 236

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Contents:

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis -- 3. Variable returns to scale : separating technical and scale efficiencies -- 4. Extensions to the basic DEA models -- 5. Nonradial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency -- 6. Efficiency measurement without convexity assumption : free disposal hull analysis -- 7. Dealing with slacks : assurance region/cone ratio analysis, weak disposability, and congestion -- 8. Efficiency of merger and breakup of firms -- 9. Efficiency analysis with market prices -- 10. Nonparametric approaches in production economics -- 11. Measuring total productivity change over time -- 12. Stochastic approaches to data envelopment analysis.

Summary: Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based in different disciplines. The various DEA models are developed as nonparametric alternatives to the econometric models. Apart from the standard fare consisting of the basic input- and output-oriented DEA models formulated by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes, and Banker, Charnes, and Cooper, the book covers more recent developments, such as the directional distance function, free disposal hull (FDH) analysis, non-radial measures of efficiency, multiplier bounds, mergers and break-up of firms, and measurement of productivity change through the Malmquist total factor productivity index. The chapter on efficiency measurement using market prices provides the critical link between DEA and the neo-classical theory of a competitive firm. The book also covers several forms of stochastic DEA in detail.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index.

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Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based in different disciplines. The various DEA models are developed as nonparametric alternatives to the econometric models. Apart from the standard fare consisting of the basic input- and output-oriented DEA models formulated by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes, and Banker, Charnes, and Cooper, the book covers more recent developments, such as the directional distance function, free disposal hull (FDH) analysis, non-radial measures of efficiency, multiplier bounds, mergers and break-up of firms, and measurement of productivity change through the Malmquist total factor productivity index. The chapter on efficiency measurement using market prices provides the critical link between DEA and the neo-classical theory of a competitive firm. The book also covers several forms of stochastic DEA in detail.

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